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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
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Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
Date
1754
Medium
Vellum
Dimensions
Metric: 281 x 210 mm
Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.
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Collection
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
Accession Number
B1977.14.359 back cover
Wilson Online Reference
D280/33
Description
Book bound in vellum containing 31 pages of blue laid paper with drawings by Wilson and Thomas Jones
Provenance
Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
Signature/inscription
Unsigned; no inscription
Critical commentary
Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81
Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII
, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922). The drawings in the present sketchbook are all by Wilson except for D280/24 p. 24(v) where there is a study of Durham Yard by William Hodges.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 6363
Bibliography
Sutton & Clements 1968
Updated by Compiler
09/09/2016
Biographies
William Hodges (1744-1797)
Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)
This is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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